Elderflower Adventure

This weekend we went to our favorite elderflower spot for this years' elderflower syrup batch. It is sitting in the fridge now, in a few days it will be ready to be bottled—some we will savour right away, some will stay in the freezer. Come winter, we will defrost and drink—hot or cold—and taste Summer all over again!

You can find the recipe at Clemmensen & Brok.

Forest Day

Saturday! Tina made a delicious spicy cake, I brought my drawings, we gathered all our stuff, and took to the forest to take pictures for a post for Clemmensen&Brok. 

These are just a few I took with my phone camera.

I think we were a bit late in the season. We didn't find many as many porchinos as we had hoped for. But it was a beautiful trip all the same :-) 

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New Easter post at Clemmensen&Brok & DIYs

Yello! And Happy Easter :-) I still have a little work to do, but after tomorrow it's Goodbye office, and Hello couch!
I have my book, a rather large order of Coffee Owls waiting, + a knitting project, should I be needing' a such.
Whatta you up to?

Photo: Tina Brok Hansen

On another Eastery note, Tina shot an amazing series of Rustic Easter foods and table setting for Clemmensen&Brok. I chipped in with ink, a DIY watercolor/ink background for making name cards, and these knitted Easter chicks for decoration.

Photo: Tina Brok Hansen

The Three Little Chicks (recipe below) are made from scraps of yarn and glass beads. They are very easy and fast to knit. The paper they are sitting on is made for the egg-shaped name cards below. First watercolored, then drizzled with indian ink, to imitate shell of quail eggs. Cut out rustically in egg shapes and write the names of your guests. Or put the (dried!) watercolor paper in the printer and print the names, using your favorite typeface. Cut in egg shapes.

Photo+Typography: Tina Brok Hansen

... now for making the chicks:

See the whole Easter post, with Tina's gorgeous food and styling here.

Have a wonderful Easter, guys :-)

Merry Christmas :-)

A very merry Christmas to everyone! I hope you are enjoying the holiday.
I'd like to share xmas cake pictures and recipe, and have gathered it all at Clemmensen&Brok.

Thank you Gracia&Louise for the great tip, made me generous on the liquids :-) Which paid off.

Time for relaxing. Are you up to something special?

There's a new place in town

Torvehallerne, a brand new marked place in the center of Copenhagen, opened last Friday, and today we went to browse and perhaps make taste buds happy :-)

and did we ever ...

dried cape gooseberries, mandarin orange, and mango

fresh honey still on the wax:

It was a feast! Foccacia from Il Fornaio (section C9) Cheese from Ostelageret (section G5) Olives and dolmades from Stig's Oliven, and for the sweet toof; dried cape gooseberries, mandarin orange, and mango from Exotic mix (section A2) and fudge! (There was a whole section of fudge!)

...did you catch the toof-link;-))) If not, here it is. Proper linked: My Milk Toof; playing Monopoly (these guys crack me up every time :-)))

Sunday spent in the Kitchen

One of the great benefits of having an office is that I seldomly work on the weekends anymore (as opposed to every weekend before). This has freed what feels to be a massive amount of time—time for some of the »homy« stuff I love so much.

Today I spent the entire day in the kitchen. I made a batch of pickles made from my late grandmother's recipe. (You can find a couple of pictures, and the recipe here if you like: at Clemmensen & Brok)

I made a cake and a terrine from the giant zucchini. Wheat and rye buns with nigella seeds, sausage rolls, basil pesto, and for dinner; spicy chicken wings with root ragout and creamy polenta. (might have gone a little bit overboard—admittedly I was kindda beat once we'd finished dinner :-)



The beginning of tea cozy from Saturday. Much too tired to knit now. Perhaps tomorrow.

I hope your Sunday was awesome!

Flaky ;-)

Inspired by Martha Stewart, I made these marshmellows :-)
Tina and I meet up some times and cook and take pictures - these are from a day like that, and this cup is thus shot by Tina :-)

And cut snowflakes from tissue paper.
Feelin' flaky now ;-)

There are recipes and more pictures at Clemmensen & Brok
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Oh no! Yesterday was Tuesday. List it Tuesdays!!! I'm so bad at this.
The week is too fast for me.

Advent Wreath #2 · Vanilla

Hello there :-) I have a little series of Advent wreaths going on over here. Please stop my, if y'like, for additional picts and macarons recipes :-)
I hope your Friday is wonderful and relaxing – afterall – the weekend is just a shake of a lamb's tail away :-) Take care

psst: you can still enter postcard giveaway ;-)

Made Macarons and Advent Wreaths ...

this weekend :-)
Follow the link and take a look at Clemmensen&Brok
Thank you

Risengrød for dinner

First time we had risengrød for dinner this year. When this happens, we know for sure that Summer is over, and Winter is about to call.


This (not-so-healthy) dish is made from white rice, milk and salt (cooked for an hour), and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar and butter. It's rich and yummy, and my stomach complained for hours after :-D Good thing we don't make this too often.


Handmade Romance posted this cute pin.
And Frankie's diary. I love this. Wish I was in Australia (for numerous reasons ;-)

Speaking of which – Gracia and Louise recently returned from Europe. Welcome back girls :-)

There Are Reasons... Reason #1

There are reasons why Autumn is my favourite season, and today I indulged in one of the big ones: Mushroom Hunting. The sun shone warmly and the forest smelled wonderful as we gathered enough to go around. A glorious day indeed.







There are more pictures and a recipe at Clemmensen&Brok :-) I hope to see you there.

A sweet blog with lots of crocheting: Virkverket
A delicate blog with lots of ceramics: Otchipotchi
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Playing again — this time with food :)

And a opportunity to tell you that Tina & I are relaunching our site Clemmensen&Brok — a collaboration sprung from our love of food (and such) :-) Tina is a super-talented photographer, and my sweet friend, and from time to time we meet to cook and take pictures of what we make. Clemmensen&Brok is our way of sharing this love with you. I hope you will receive it well :-)
(Btw — you can find the recipe for the cookies at Clemmensen&Brok)


Need inspiration for kids' parties? Sambellina's site is just dreamy!
Feel free to go nuts on this cookie site; Sweetopia (check this out :)

RAW!

Hi there. I hope you are enjoying the last of your weekend :)
Gotta share a photo of recent raw food pie. Having eaten inbetween raw for a while (not s'much this weekend which I opened with a delicious, juicy burger from Halifax. Yum!) but some—sometimes more, sometimes less.
I'm not being all-the-way-or-no-way — do not worry about the cocoa having been heated to plus 42 C or that sort, but it's fun, and feels great!
And as so often before, when exploring new ways of fooding, I have tried a lot of the deserts :-D

The recipe was inspired by this book. Author Erica's page here.
Take care, and see you soon.

Here's to Happy Accidents

Yesterday we had home made pizza with leftovers. This meant one classic with tomato sauce (canned + dried, in oil + garlic + salt/pepper), beef sausage, cheddar and oregano, half a classic (classic being the-one-I-always-make) with olive oil, cheddar, potatoes, rosemary, pine nuts + salt, and one half Happy-Accident-Pizza. With a good chunk of goatcheese (we for some reason failed to savour during the week), sage from the balcony, a liiittle dash of honey, some bashed hazelnuts, oliveoil and stray pinenuts from the potato-side, happy-accident was all over the place. I hadn't made this combo before, but I think it's safe to say that goatcheese, honey, pinenuts and sage will be on a great many pizzas in our household in the future.
And hereby passed on with reccomandation.
(I'm hungry ...)

Lovely Lovely Morning :)
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